Queen's Award for ScotAsh Innovation
ScotAsh is to receive a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category.
The business wins the award for the design, construction and operation of a facility that turns ash produced by power stations into usable building materials, lowering disposal costs and environmental impact.
ScotAsh Managing Director Peter Quinn said: "We are very honoured that our achievements have been recognised with a Queen's Award, a mark of success that is well-known both in the UK and internationally.
"I would like to thank our 23 employees, our parent companies, our research and development partners and our customers, all of whom have played a role in our success during the last few years.
"ScotAsh aims eventually to recycle ScottishPower's entire ash output as value-added construction products. We achieved nearly 80% in 2003/4, so that target is within our reach."
During the last 18 months ScotAsh has focused strongly on product development and Product Development Manager Bill Armstrong is continuing to work with research and development partners, including Scottish universities to develop and test new applications. Among the new products launched recently are the Trojan Stone Paving System and ultrafine cement and concrete enhancers.
A presentation of a crystal bowl bearing The Queen's Award emblem will be made to ScotAsh by the Lord Lieutenant for Fife, as The Queen's local representative, in the near future.
In July, three members of the company will attend a reception at Buckingham Palace, where Her Majesty The Queen receives all winners personally.
The Queen's Award is the latest in a series of awards for ScotAsh. The company won the Utility Industry Achievement Award (Environment) in December 2003 and a VIBES (Vision in Business for the Environment of Scotland) Award in December 2004. In addition, the company was short-listed in the Environment category of the 2004 National Business Awards.
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